You know that finance professionals are, typically, time-poor. Paul Littlechild, Group Financial Controller at the Arena Group, share his experiences of how moving to the cloud has completely transformed management and statutory reporting and shaved four days off the consolidation process.

Lessons from Michelangelo. A must-reed story about innovation, courage and reinvention. Learn how to work to the full potential using the tools needed to manage any hitch, from the smallest reporting detail to the structure of the documents, to the overall performance of their business.

Eliminating profits on intragroup transactions that are recognized in inventory can be a real challenge to the office of finance. How a consolidation software solution can be utilized to address this challenge.

Information is power. Transferring data on automated archives means sharing information, thus empowering your organization. But that also means loss of power. Legends tell us that mankind invented desk drawers to hide pieces of information that would be inserted manually on report on request...

How to build an information flow that fits the reporting needs of a company as well as the requirements of the system, in order to obtain the right information on time with the minimum spent in terms of human and corporate resources. Read the second part of my experience.

The evaluation of the overall performance of any CPM system often relies on the quality of the set of information which feeds those systems. In this article I will try to give a consistent vision to apparently chaotic pieces of advice generated by my experience as consolidation specialist in the past 10 years. Ten years in ten key points.

With adoption of cloud-based financials and corporate performance management (CPM) applications gaining speed, it appears that Finance executives have become more comfortable with the notion of trusting their sensitive financial data to cloud-based applications.

Mar.182014
by Alessio Lolli,
Vice President and General Manager - CCH Tagetik North America

Anything we do in Finance we should ask, “Why?”. There is always plenty of work for the finance team so if we can’t answer why take on something more then we shouldn’t do it. So, why is it important to have a faster close?

Consolidation is one of the most important and often complex Corporate Performance Management (CPM) process. It is also provides significant opportunity to save time through automation. A key to maximizing time savings is proper planning in setting up the consolidation rules that drive the consolidation.

Feb.202014
by Alessio Lolli,
Vice President and General Manager - CCH Tagetik North America

Let’s be honest, a close cycle can never be fast enough. Finance departments have had this as a goal for as long as there have been ledgers. And progress has been made, mainly though technological advances and the use of financial consolidation and reporting software. But over the past few years the cycles have begun to slow down again.